Joe Chianakas loves everything horror. He's been an educator for sixteen years, and in 2015 won a teacher-of-the-year award. He loves long walks through graveyards, preferably late at night.

Chianakas loves shows like The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, and will turn anyone who spoils the outcomes of those shows into victims in his next novel.

He’s thirty-seven years old, lives in Peoria, IL, and teaches at Illinois Central College. Rabbit in Red is his first novel, which earned the Halloween 2015 book-of-the-day honors and was picked up by Horror Block for international distribution.